Vehicle-seat brace.



PATENTED JULY 30, 1907. y M; HOAGLAND. v VEHICLE SEAT BRAOE.

PPLIOATION PILBDJUNE 9, 1906.

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Mamme @5w MONROE l-IOAGLAND, OF PADUOAH, KENTUCKY.

VEHICLE-SEAT BRACE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 30, 1907.

Application ned June 9,1906. serial No. 321,015.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that l, MONROE HOAGL'AND, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Paducah, in the county of McCracken and State ofKentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vehicle- SeatBraces, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buggy bra-ces, and contemplates the provisionof simple and effective bracing irons for rigidly tying or uniting theseat and seat support to the bed or body of a bugg in such a manner asto prevent the parts from spreading or becoming disconnected understrain, whereby spreading of the sides of the body or casual detachmentof the seat will be avoided and the strength and durability of thevehicle body increased.

In the accompanying draWings,-Figure l is a longitudinal section througha vehicle body equipped with the invention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view ofone of the braces, showing a portion of the seat supporting frame indotted lines. Fig. 3 is a front or inner elevational view of the brace.Fig. 4 is a vertical vcross section thereof on line 4% of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral l designates the box or body ofthe buggy, 2 the seat supporting frame and 3 the seat, which areconstructed in the usual or any preferred manner. As ordinarilyconstructed the seat support forms the body of a curtain box andcomprises front and rear cross pieces 4 and 5, side pieces 6 and cornerstandards 7, providing a rectangular frame from which the standards 7depend and are fastened to the sides 8 and sills 9 of the body, overwhich frame the seat lits and to which it is screwed or otherwisesuitably fastened.

It is found in practice that the ordinary mode of mounting the partsabove described is weak and insecure, as under the pressures and strainsto which the vehicle body is subjected the sides are liable to spread nand to become loosened or unfastened at the corners and the seat to bedetached from the supporting frame, a source of danger to the occupantsof the vehicle. In

, order to remedy this defect, I provide abracing member or iron at eachside of the vehicle beneath the seat,

each iron comprising a pair of standards or uprights l0 arranged to bearagainst the standards 7 of the supporting frame and which may be securedthereto at inter'- vals throughout their length if desired. At theirlower ends the standards are provided with laterally bent feet llfastened by bolts or screws l2 to the adjacent sill 9, and at theirupper ends said standards are connected by a cross piece or plate 13extending between their outer edges and arranged at right anglesthereto.

The cross piece or plate 13 is perforated for the passage of bolts orother suitable fastenings securing the same to the adjacent side piece Gof the seat supporting frame, and upon the outer sides of the standardsand cross piece, adjacent their' corner angles, are arrangedhorizontally and laterally extending lugs 14 and l5 which extend underthe front, rear and side pieces of the seat supporting frame and formsupports to sustain the same firmly and securely against the weight ofthe seat and its occupants. Apertured bracing lugs 16 are also arrangedat the corner portions of the brace and are disposed upon the inner sidethereof to strengthen the elements of the brace at their points ofunion. Bolts 17 pass through these apertured lugs and the end portionsof the seat and rigidly fasten the latter in position, whereby the seatand its supporting frame are securely tied or united and the framefastened to the sills of the body, so as to mutually brace the parts andhold them from spreading or becoming accidentally detached.

The braces may be applied to buggies of ordinary construction and at asmall cost provides a simple and effective means of connecting andbracing the parts and remedying the objections referred to.

Having thus described the invention,- what is claimed as new, is:-

l. A vehicle seat brace comprising a pair of supporting standardsconnected at their upper ends by a cross piece, said brace beingprovided with inner and outer supporting projections at and adjacent tothe corner angles between each of said standards and the cross piece.

2. The combination with a body, a seat frame, seat frame supportingstandards and the seat of a vehicle, of means for bracing the seat frameand seat, comprising` bracing devices at opposite sides of the body,each of said bracing devices embodying a pair of standards secured tothe seat standards, across piece connecting the upper ends of saidstandards and secured to the outer side of the seat frame, supportinglugs upon the outer sides of the standards and cross piece adjacent thecorner angles thereof and projecting beneath the adjoining ends of theside and front and rear pieces of the seat frame, perforated earsconnecting the inner faces of the standards and cross piece at theangle, and bolts extending through said ears and connecting the samewith the seat.

3. A vehicle seat brace comprising a pair of standards, a cross piececonnecting the outer edges of the standards at their upper ends,supporting lugs upon the outer sides of the standards and cross pieceadjacent the corner angles thereof, and perforated lugs connecting theinner sides of the standards and cross piece at the angles.

In testimony whereof, I ax my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MONROE HOAGLAND.

Witnesses W. T. HARDY, T. H. BELL.

